Harrison is missing.

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I swear I am sending stop worrying your parent to pieces Harrison and get your self home right now vibes. I keep checking back and hoping. Hyia and I were talking about this today. I told her this is exactly why I always try to put a lost dog up until either I can find the owner or I can get them to a safe stay over like the shelter. I only wish someone had done that for me when I was little and lost my heart dog. I now have a good sized metal crate that a neighbor threw out in my garage. The husky that I sat in the bedroom with on Christmas was super cat aggressive and I was afraid to trust the door without being there because the dog was in the room the cats like to sleep in. I dozed with my back against it to make extra sure it stayed shut.

Will check back in the morning and hope and pray all will be safe and warm and resting up.
 
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From working with some tricky local "cases," I would suggest you post lost dog notices with requests that people call you, but do NOT call out and chase him. You want him to feel safe in one small area so you can trap him. Get a game camera if you can (haven't read the whole thread, so maybe I missed discussion about one,) and set it up where you want to trap him.

I managed to catch a severely skittish dog with chopped raw hooligan (super smelly fish) and a humane trap. I had people calling in sightings and staying away from him to allow him to settle into a routine.
 
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Nobody has chased him, and he's not skittish or shy, he's just very aloof, and won't come up to people that aren't his people. I'm going to make a map of everywhere that he's been POSITIVELY sighted, so maybe someone can help me figure out where the hell he's heading.
 
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Maybe he'll head towards that pond / lake (ducks/geese/water supply) just a bit down from where he was spotted yesterday? To the right of Bay st.
 
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ACooper said:
Maybe he'll head towards that pond / lake (ducks/geese/water supply) just a bit down from where he was spotted yesterday? To the right of Bay st.
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Maybe, but look at the scale, this is a small area.

He's not heading anywhere, he could traverse the entire town in an hour.
 
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I keep sending positive thoughts your way. It's especially resonating with me as tomorrow will be the 1 year anniversary of the day Boo went missing because of some neighbors and their illegal fireworks.

Be careful with trusting all sightings. Obviously, sightings are necessary to help you figure out where to direct your search and hang flyers (which btw, you ought to move the center of your flyer radius to the last location that he was seen/found and add to the already hung flyers), but we had a handful of very confident "I saw your dog" comments and emails sent to us that were nothing but red herrings in the end (at least, I can only assume so, given the tracker's track of Boo and where we ended up finding her).

I am still thinking of you and Harrison.
 
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Also, and I mean this only to help, but I got on craigslist to check the lost/found section and I don't see Harrison listed on the Atlanta, GA craigslist site anytime in the last several days, despite the map of his sightings being only 20 minutes from there. If I found a dog anywhere in the vicinity of Atlanta and it didn't have tags, I would either drive it to a shelter or keep it in my home and post it on craigslist and around town as "found." If I couldn't catch it, I would probably only post it online if I hadn't seen your flyers. The internet is important. Your own searching is important both for your own emotional state and increasing your chances of finding your dog, but I would imagine that your chances of finding him will grow exponentially the more eyes you can have looking. I and my family spent more time advertising Boo as being missing than we did physically searching for her. Don't get me wrong - I still scoured my area and every time we drove around, we were keeping our eyes out... but the more dog lovers who know, the better.
 
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Psyfalcon said:
Maybe, but look at the scale, this is a small area.

He's not heading anywhere, he could traverse the entire town in an hour.
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True....I didn't even think of the scale.

I was so hoping he was back where he belongs by now :(
 
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GoingNowhere said:
Also, and I mean this only to help, but I got on craigslist to check the lost/found section and I don't see Harrison listed on the Atlanta, GA craigslist site anytime in the last several days, despite the map of his sightings being only 20 minutes from there. If I found a dog anywhere in the vicinity of Atlanta and it didn't have tags, I would either drive it to a shelter or keep it in my home and post it on craigslist and around town as "found." If I couldn't catch it, I would probably only post it online if I hadn't seen your flyers. The internet is important. Your own searching is important both for your own emotional state and increasing your chances of finding your dog, but I would imagine that your chances of finding him will grow exponentially the more eyes you can have looking. I and my family spent more time advertising Boo as being missing than we did physically searching for her. Don't get me wrong - I still scoured my area and every time we drove around, we were keeping our eyes out... but the more dog lovers who know, the better.
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I agree...we found a cat, posted on CL and called the ACO for the town. Didn't get any response, so we were setting up for someone to adopt her.. the day before she was supposed to go to her new home my mom spotted a poster in the post office for her.
 
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I hope you find him soon. Come home Harrison!!! :( I haven't read this whole thread but would it be possible to try using a trap? I'd be tempted to use one of camera traps to see if it's really him.
 
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